Saturday Morning Historical Reenactment Society

In an email shared with me by Rod Cockle (a local artist who spent many memorable lunches with Hal and owns his original Studio desk), Hal Sutherland's daughter Lisa had this to say:

"Hi, I am Hal's daughter, and replying to you from dad' computer, due to having some very sad news. Sadly, on 1/16/14, we lost my dad to this world due to health complications related to gallbladder..."

If anybody here likes to do Wikipedia editing, it would be great if this information could be updated there.

This really should have been a bigger deal - a few blogs, a facebook post or two here and there, and nothing else. No CNN, no Reddit, no... uhm... what websites do entertainment news? NOTHING for the man who shaped what action/adventure animation of the 70's and 80's looked like!

Wikipedia was edited. Write in to various media sources asking them to post something. I think it was the lack of available reliable information that prevented reputable media from publishing the story.